A computational algebraic-geometry method for conditional-independence inference

DOI10.1007/s11464-013-0295-9zbMath1276.13023OpenAlexW1976751527MaRDI QIDQ372231

Benchong Li, Shoufeng Cai, Jian-hua Guo

Publication date: 14 October 2013

Published in: Frontiers of Mathematics in China (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11464-013-0295-9

zbMATH Keywords

Nullstellensatzconditional independenceCI implicationradical membershipsemi-graphoidstructural imset

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symbolic computation and algebraic computation (68W30) Gröbner bases; other bases for ideals and modules (e.g., Janet and border bases) (13P10) Axioms; other general questions in probability (60A05) Applications of commutative algebra (e.g., to statistics, control theory, optimization, etc.) (13P25)

Uses Software

• SINGULAR
• 4ti2
• Separoids
• MIM

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